The Manhattan Project Of Computer Clocks
Posted on September 29, 2007
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Atomic Alarm Clock is far from the first piece of software that replaces the standard Windows tray clock (in the bottom right corner of your screen), but it’s most definitely the coolest I’ve ever seen. It’s an atomic clock, which means it automatically sets your computer clock to match your choice of atomic clock time servers on the web. You can also choose how often it adjusts your clock to match: hourly, every 3 hours, 12 hours, daily, every 3 hours, weekly. You may be noticing a trend here. I’ve only mentioned two features thus far and both are customizable by you, the end user. That’s the true power of this application: customization.
You can also customize 12 or 24 hour time format; choose from 16 different languages; display seconds, date, day, week number; current time or computer uptime; whether or not to add a leading zero to the time; blinking time separator or not; even what to do when you click on the clock: switch between real time/uptime; show/hide timezone; show fast menu, main dialog box, calendar, Windows date/time properties box, display uptime for 5 seconds; even change to a random skin.
Oh, did I fail to mention that it’s fully skinnable? It comes with more than 130 skins to start, more skins are available for download, and you can even create custom skins of your own. You can also change the way any of thees skins look by making it recessed or raised; adding or removing borders; using a standard or longhorn style display; or setting the background to transparent. All of these options are in addition to the skin that you select or create.
Are you excited yet? Well, I haven’t even gotten to the good part yet. This isn’t just an Atomic Clock, it’s an Atomic Alarm Clock! But it’s not your normal alarm clock. It has an unlimited number of alarms and, of course, tons of customization options! Each alarm can be set to trigger once, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, or on any other regular schedule that you set; you can set the “alarm buzzer” to any mp3 or wav file on your computer; each alarm can have its own custom volume set; alarms can repeat a set number of times or until canceled (with a custom pause between repeats). You can even set any action to be triggered by the alarm: open an application; start a media file; turn off your monitor or system (including all standard shut down options: restart, stand by, hibernate, etc.).
I’ve been using Atomic Alarm Clock for about a week now and shared it with about a dozen fellow computer geeks. Not one of us has been able to come up with a single function we wish this clock contained that it doesn’t already. The only problem with it is that it doesn’t seem to have anywhere to go.
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